ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,974, issued on March 3, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).
"Method, user device, verifier device, server and system for authenticating user data while preserving user privacy" was invented by Michael Webster (Vantaa, Finland), Gerald Maunier (Sanary sur Mer, France), Kamil Parizek (Prague-Kunratice, Czech Republic) and Mourad Faher (Marly le Roi, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: receiving, by a user device, from a verifier device, a request for user data; retrieving a first cryptogram and a decryption key; sending and, to a server, the first cryptogram; retrieving a random and a second cr...